Tampa Bay Freelance Photojournalist

Chip Weiner is an award winning independent photojournalist and commercial photographer based in Tampa, FL. His coverage has included day to day Tampa Bay activities and larger scale events including sports team home games, Gasparilla (Tampa's largest street fest), St. Pete Pride, and protests including the recent March For Our Lives. Much of his work is for the alt-weekly Creative Loafing Tampa. He is also an FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot and member of the National Press Photographers Association.

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Girls on the Run is a program that links athletes with girls to inspire them not only to be more athletic, but to believe in themselves.

Belly dancer for a story on a local cafe featuring traditional Lebanese fare

Shot as part of the Summer Guide for Creative Loafing featuring the Tampa Yankees minor league baseball team and low attendance

While on a personal project I was able to shoot Times Square just two days prior to super storm Sandy. Looking back it was eerily normal given the size of the storm just off shore

At a Justice for Trayvon demonstration in front of the Tampa Federal Courthouse participants wore shirts, held signs, and rallied support for Trayvon Martin and his family, some of whom were present. The rally was held one week after the not guilty verdict in Sanford Florida where George Zimmerman stood trial for the second degree murder of Trayvon.

Sierra Mist poses in Nix Herrera exhibit as part of the annual Nude Nite Tampa published on March 18 2013

Opposing forces. The men in an embrace on the right show their contempt for the man on the right who is proselytizing at the St Pete Pride event

Brendy Gutierrez of West Palm Beach chalks a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci. This was Gutierrez's first appearance at Tampa's Chalk Walk published March 16, 2012

Covering the Kumari Festival in Kathmandu, The Nepalese Military stand guard

After the disclosure by ex National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden that the agency had been using internet and cellular phone technology to spy on U.S. citizens several organizations gathered on Friday June 23, 2013 to protest across the street from the Federal Building in Downtown Tampa, Fl. The Guy Fawkes mask on the back of the head of an Occupy Tampa member has become a symbol of protest world wide. Demonstrators rallied against the NSA, advocated for the release of Bradley Manning who was arrested in 2010 for releasing classified information to the website Wikileaks, and held Snowden out as a hero.

Tom Filbert who is currently unemployed demonstrates for higher wages for fast food workers during the nationwide fast food workers strike

Susie Shannon of Occupy Tampa escorted out of International Plaza in Tampa on 07-27-13 after participating in a demonstration protesting the jailing of Bradley Manning, the Army private and former intelligence analyst being held for his alleged release of classified information to the web site WikiLeaks.

The Pet-A-Palooza event in Tampa brought Twiggy the waterskiing squirrel to entertain. This little dude, the second iteration of Twiggy, has been in movies and television

In the debate over animals being used in circuses both sides are passionate about their beliefs. Florida Voices for Animals protested just prior to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus

James “Pictureman” Youngblood peers from his food truck, where he and wife Sheilah gave away hot dogs across the street from the College Hill polling place in Tampa on election day.

James Bell was the focus of a news feature called Lost Veteransby Mitch Perry. It wasa story on how Bell, along with thousands of others, wind up homeless after their military service. He arrived in Tampa on a Greyhound bus from Georgia

A demonstration of a water propelled jet pack shown on the Hillsborough River in Tampa during the 2nd annual Mayors River O'Green celebration for St Patricks day in 2013

Jim Haskins holds a crucifix with a choose life sign attached outside of the Women's Health Center on Fletcher Ave in Tampa. The image was part of a story being done for the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by Arielle Stevenson

Pete "Poobah" the Fire Eating Pigmy was a crowd favorite for years at the World of Wonders Sideshow at the Florida State Fair. He was a favorite of mine with his story telling face, his short stature, the ever present black marks around his mouth, and his place in history of the dyeing art of sideshow performer.

March For Our Lives 03-24-18

Tampa Pride Celebration March 24, 2018

Tampa's Gasparilla Celebration

ESPN Party for 2017 College Playoffs

For information on other Tampa photography classes and lessons, digital photography classes, and Tampa photography workshops feel free to call me or look under the Tampa Photography Classes section. I also give private individual photography lessons on camera operation and making better photographs and would love to work with you one on one to make you a better photographer. Let's talk about what you need! 813-786-7780. See you in class!